Simon Yee

Providing design and technical knowledge for various apparel categories, ensuring clarity around garment specifications, construction guidelines, and technical information for production. Creating and maintaining detailed tech flats, sketches, and design sheets in Illustrator, highlighting construction details, measurements, patterns and materials. Participating in product development meetings to convey new design concepts and updates, and supporting quality control checks on pre-production samples to ensure compliance with design standards and regulatory requirements.

Led end-to-end product strategy for Kappa Canada/Cintex International, including lifecycle management, category development, and cross-functional leadership across design, sourcing, and manufacturing. Drove revenue growth by relaunching the Kappa brand positioning for NA markets, building omnichannel go-to-market plans, and optimizing SKU mix based on consumer insights. Owned collaborative processes with internal teams and external partners to deliver apparel and accessory lines on time and within margin targets, while maintaining brand consistency and regional relevance.

Led marketplace transformation merchandising for Nike Canada, developing seasonal assortments and aligning with NA brand strategy. Created seasonal assortments and buy plans, forecasted factory capacity, and coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time product delivery. Negotiated with vendors, supported go-to-market styling and packaging, and implemented new product development processes to streamline forecasting and response to market trends.